Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

Ho Chi Minh

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost --that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization --is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

Victor Hugo

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Judith Wright

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

Tom Stoppard

Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Bertolt Brecht

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Henry James

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

Cardinal Jean Francois de Retz

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Dale Carnegie

A sadder vision yet: thine aged sire Shaming his hoary locks with treacherous wile! And dost thou now doubt Truth to be a liar? And wilt thou die, that hast forgot to smile?

Lewis Carroll